Additional Wellcome Trust data (2015-2016) included


In 2014 the Wellcome Trust started to make its APC expenditures publicly available. The most recent set of data has now been processed and added to Open APC’s data collection.

About the dataset

The dataset contributed by the Wellcome Trust contains information on publication fees covering a time span from October 2015 to September 2016 (OpenAPC treats this data as having all been processed in the 2016 period).

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 3,059 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 327 915€ and the average fee is 2 396€.

The following table shows the payments the Wellcome Trust has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 733 2144723 2926
Springer Nature 505 1122606 2223
Wiley-Blackwell 378 861351 2279
Oxford University Press (OUP) 225 540222 2401
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 222 356820 1607
BMJ 139 315418 2269
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 79 276228 3497
Informa UK Limited 56 63492 1134
Frontiers Media SA 52 70460 1355
Impact Journals, LLC 45 119608 2658
Society for Neuroscience 41 112462 2743
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 39 65024 1667
SAGE Publications 39 31735 814
The Royal Society 38 67645 1780
American Society for Microbiology 36 87097 2419
American Chemical Society (ACS) 33 97200 2945
The Company of Biologists 29 85074 2934
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 28 68771 2456
The Endocrine Society 28 79859 2852
Portland Press Ltd. 21 43491 2071
American Physiological Society 18 34011 1890
American Psychological Association (APA) 17 65530 3855
EMBO 15 48936 3262
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 14 26757 1911
IOP Publishing 12 26925 2244
S. Karger AG 12 34337 2861
Informa Healthcare 11 19317 1756
American Society for Nutrition 10 47205 4721
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 10 28445 2844
MyJove Corporation 10 30707 3071
FASEB 9 24670 2741
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 9 13104 1456
The American Association of Immunologists 9 22222 2469
British Institute of Radiology 7 17698 2528
Genetics Society of America 7 14901 2129
Johns Hopkins University Press 7 17885 2555
MDPI AG 7 10352 1479
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 7 12313 1759
Microbiology Society 6 14348 2391
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 5 12642 2528
American Society for Clinical Investigation 5 15928 3186
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 5 8585 1717
BioScientifica 5 10467 2093
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 8919 1784
Optical Society of America (OSA) 5 10715 2143
Royal College of General Practitioners 5 13772 2754
Royal College of Psychiatrists 5 17216 3443
Future Medicine Ltd 4 8850 2213
Future Science, LTD 4 12870 3218
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 4 6054 1513
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 7116 2372
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 4933 1644
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 4580 1527
American Diabetes Association 2 4751 2376
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2 5614 2807
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2 7583 3792
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3834 1917
OMICS Publishing Group 2 2692 1346
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 3838 1919
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2 5366 2683
Schattauer GmbH 2 4043 2021
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2465 2465
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 1 2845 2845
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1 2271 2271
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 2386 2386
Edinburgh University Global Health Society 1 402 402
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 1717 1717
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 452 452
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 729 729
Paris Legal Publishers 1 964 964
PeerJ 1 571 571
Portico 1 2892 2892
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 588 588
Smart Science and Technology, LLC 1 1284 1284
Society for Leukocyte Biology 1 2385 2385
Spandidos Publications 1 884 884
Textrum, Ltd. 1 1148 1148
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1035 1035
Wichtig Publishing, SRL 1 1862 1862
Wiley 1 1722 1722

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the Wellcome Trust which has been added to OpenAPC up to this point looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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